The Cambridge Companion To Twentieth-century Russian Literature (cambridge Companions To Literature)

the cambridge companion to twentieth-century russian literature In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations – changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both e´ migr´e literature and literature written in Russia. This volume concentrates on broad, complex, and diverse sources – from Symbolism and revolutionary avant-garde writings to Stalinist, post-Stalinist, and post-Soviet prose, poetry, drama, and e´ migr´e literature, with forays into film, theatre, and literary policies, institutions, and theories. The contributors present recent scholarship on the historical and cultural contexts of twentieth-century literary development, and situate the most influential individual authors within these contexts: among them Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelshtam, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Anna Akhmatova. e v g e n y d o b r e n k o is Professor of Russian at the University of Sheffield. m a r i n a b a l i n a is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian Studies at the Illinois Wesleyan University. A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book. THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE EDITED BY EVGENY DOBRENKO AND MARINA BALINA cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao ˜ Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521698047  C Cambridge University Press 2011 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2011 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The Cambridge companion to twentieth-century Russian literature / edited by Evgeny Dobrenko, Marina Balina. p. cm. – (Cambridge companions to literature) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-521-87535-6 (hardback) 1. Russian literature – 20th century – History and criticism. I.